skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Like the other replies are saying: you're in a bubble, like most Apple users.

MacOS needs third party apps to not be incredibly frustrating, and often the apps are subscription based. (Window management, clipboard history, and power management are the big ones - even if you go with a free option like I do, it's not good that the base OS is missing essential features in these areas.) There are many little annoying things that can't be easily disabled, like Apple Music launching every time you connect your bluetooth earbuds. There are incredibly bizarre UX choices, like not having "pin" in Finder be a right click option.

As for development, Windows + Powertoys can do everything MacOS can better, plus game (and game dev). For anything Linux I can use WSL2. I can natively develop any kind of software for literally any non-walled-garden platform on Windows (and use a VM if I'm forced to make an iOS app, god forbid). Why would I intentionally choose to limit what my computer can run and what development I can do?

I'm forced to use a Macbook for work, but would never use it if given the choice. MacOS is for people that value style over substance and non-technical people, just like everything else Apple.
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I'm not saying anything about what is possible. What would be the amount of time it takes to create a new language, create a stable compiler, create a sizable community? It can easily be ten years.

There are lot's of organizations that are not going to wait ten years. And we still have to wait for the language to be designed in the first place to suggest that waiting might be an option.

And 10 years from now, the people who have running Rust code are no going to switch to a language that is similar to Rust but may have a slightly better syntax or otherwise be closer to C.
hm, standardized test are better for diversity, no?
Grafana: From Dashboards to Centralized Observability
That's a built-in failing of the genocide definition: it requires intent, otherwise no doubt the US would have been on the hook as early as the Korean war.

Sadly for the Israelis, they have a cabinet of the kind of people who just cannot help themselves from communicating intent.
I much prefer ESPHome, it really makes it easy to compile firmware and add on device automation, but Tasmota seems to also be a pretty good choice.

It seems like more native hardware is slowly coming out for this stuff, just not as fast as one might like, and none of it has much support for device-to-device interactions.

There's nothing except a full computer or Pi class device that can really discover and control this stuff, a handheld remote with months of battery life can't build a nice UI automatically quite yet, even though the hardware is there now(Cardputer, T-deck, etc)
LeRobot: Machine Learning for Real-World Robotics in PyTorch
Hi Remmy, this is definitely something that must be addressed when this tool becomes popular and people try to bypass it when creating AI faces (like using trained lora). Thanks for pointing that out!
Do you remember what the word "root" means?
No, I still disagree, on a few points:

1) The official position of most Arab countries is aiming for a 2 state solution, iirc. The Palestinian Authority - which is the effective government of the West Bank Palestinians, and the official representative of Palestinians - officially recognize the State of Israel and endorse a two state solution.

Yes, support among the populace right now is weak - both Israelis and Palestinians - but that's probably because of the breakdown of the peace talks and living for the last 15 years in a situation in which Israel itself isn't really pursuing any kind of peace.

2) You write: "you can effectively paint the entire pro-Palestinian movement as genocidal."

Even if they don't support a two-state solution, calling them genocidal is going way too far.

3) When you talk about the "entire pro-Palestinian movement", it sounds like you're including the Western pro-Palestinian movement as well.

They are definitely not genocidal, and very relevant in the current context.

4) Most importantly - the best way to get to peace isn't to ignore the peaceful voices on either side as fringe, it's to amplify them.

There are genuinely pro-peace people on all sides of these issues, and pretending they don't exist is exactly the kind of rhetorical message that leads to more hate and violence. "No one on the other side is reasonable" is both wrong, and very harmful.
>Just as a side point, approx 3-4% of slaves ended up in North America. Most went to the Carribbean and South America (Brazil mainly). Nobody ever seems to want to talk about those countries though for some reason.

The average SJW/Redditor/DEI advocate sincerely believes that slavery has existed in only one country in the world's history: In the United States, involving Africans. The etymology of the word "slav"? Brazil? Haiti? Guadeloupe? North Africans enslaving Europeans? Vikings taking thralls? Feudalism? Never heard of 'em.
The paper does not cite [1], which describes prediction by partial match algorithm with unbounded context length.

[1] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/2473004_Unbounded_L...

That is from 2003 and actually quite interesting. It shows, for example, that these models were applied to rather small texts, because of the presence of context with length of -1 (uniform distribution). When text is large the need for such context vanishes, but for small texts it can give an advantage.
> Have you tried any other Banks books?

I can't remember any, if so. Most likely I have 1-2 audio books.
X11 will stop working if things stop supporting it.

Stuff might eventually decide to render directly to Wayland only APIs or something.

I'm actually not a very big Wayland fan, I prefer the single implementation model rather than all the different implementations of Wayland.

But I'd rather have just only the Wayland fragmentation mess, instead of the Wayland mess plus also X11, so I'm glad Pi OS and Ubuntu(Right now the only distros I pay much attention to) have switched.
It is not my impression that Al Jazeera can reasonably be compared to Nazi Germany, but okay...
Security is a good reason to kill it.
Can we, PLEASE, return back to batteries-included first?

While it doesn’t eliminate the threat completely, but I can sleep soundly knowing that I need to vet one party instead of 1000.
Maybe! But even so there’s facilities AI lack that are more capability based than model based. For instance we demonstrate agency, we can simulate things in our mind alone, such as arriving at Maxwells Equations, or general relativity, or any number of other profound insights that aren’t based on our training data but are an extrapolation through our mind into domains we’ve no experience with and arrive at profound insights never conceived of before. Statistical models generally aren’t able to do this - they’re reflections of their training set, even if very complex ones. The human mind can create its own training set and that’s a remarkable capability.
Apps already existed, it was around the time no one knew which platform will end up being most popular, so many apps had their Windows Mobile version. Not nearly as many as on Android or iOS, true, but they did exist. Especially in Europe.
ah I missed that, apologies.
This repo is a nix flake for easily running various LLMs with llama.cpp. Right now all commands run llama.cpp with a model downloaded from huggingface, but could be easily extended to support other model sources and/or alternatives to llama.cpp.
Which are the dramatic examples of lead devs looking at a system, decided half baked configs/guis will start falling apart in a few years, so they moved to a powerful programming language? Blender and Maya getting Python scripting may be one.
Well, in most developed countries it happens very rarely (less than once a year) and when it happens it's typically in the minutes or maybe an hour range.

As a backup I would recommend a camping stove that uses ethanol over using a UPS system.
Oh good, I'm glad Sam Altman, who doesn't even have a bachelor's degree, is on the case. I'm sure his efforts towards cold fusion will be appreciated.

> I wasn't aware of this unspoken social contract before OpenAI existed, but maybe I'm just ignorant.

It's shocking to me the number of programmers out there who simply did not realize everyone would be mad at them for leveraging everyone's work into a massive for profit system. Then they play stupid when people rightly called them out and spout some bullshit about outmoded forms of production as if productivity was an issue for the generation of culture.
I'm glad to see this! So many posts online still cheerfully suggest using SoundFlower for this purpose, which doesn't work with M1 Macs.
The oldest example I can find was passed by the Knesset in July of 1986. I'm not very familiar with Israeli laws so it's totally possible I'm missing prior examples from before 1986... That's just what I found after a few minutes of search engine and wikipedia research, limited to English pages.

My understanding is that the degree to which "freedom of speech" is protected in the USA (a country I'm more familiar with) is actually pretty rare globally
> The reason for asking is because a poll[0] of Palestinians says “90% believe that Hamas did not commit any atrocities against Israel civilians during its October the 7th offensive. Only one in five Palestinians has seen videos showing atrocities committed by Hamas.”

I think they have more pressing matters on their mind than getting informed at the moment, such as trying not to starve, finding dead relatives in the rubble of destroyed apartments, and similar things.

Moreover, I think the people of Palestine might be a bit biased against Israel. And I don't think that's an information issue, I think it's a completely natural response to Israel killing tens of thousands of civilian, 70% of whom women and children.

I think if you ask Ukrainian civilians what they think of Russians you'll hear some falsehoods and unreasonable stuff too. That's a completely natural response, and the Ukrainian media is not to be blamed for that.
You simplify of course, because my actual argument is harder to counter. I understand if the choice choice is "Palestinians attack Israel as a righteous resistance to oppression" or "Palestinians attack Israel because the idea of living peacefully next to a Jewish state is abhorrent." why a reasonable person would think the first is more likely. It's counter intuitive to our expectations.

And you never answered the question. Why were those measures put in place?
Don't know if you are still playing on windows the OS itself is now basically a spyware, so if people don't care about that a potential rootkit is not much.

More importantly imo is that the game is working well in the flatpak distribution of Steam.
« Nobody » may be too optimistic.

https://forward.com/culture/603271/jk-rowling-holocaust-stre...
his tweet is so annoying, i think he’s past his prime
The two wrongs make a right argument.

There isn't a single item on that definition that hasn't been reported and evidenced on numerous times by the limited press coverage. To bring the conversation back to the article.

The argument that it could kill more is ridiculous. Israel is clearly killing as many as it believes the international community will let it, without becoming a pariah state. Deliberately, and indiscriminate killing or maiming of 5% of a population is not trivial.

I find it difficult to classify what is happening as a war. The disparity in power, control and access to military and other means is to disparate. Like Iraq, Afghanistan, etc it's transparent one side is doing it because they can, and without regard for anything but their own satisfaction and revenge.
Their parents are good friends of someone else’s parents.
I'm using KSUID (https://sotergreco.com/why-choose-ulids-over-traditional-uui...) for a while and totally happen with it
One tiny note about using sortable id is you should not expose it to public use without authentication because it can be scan easily
Microsoft is expert at vendor lock-in. Your company got Office in the 1990s because competing office suites didn't work with Microsoft's operating system "for some reason". Now all of your accountants' macros only work in Excel and it would take thousands of hours to convert them, so no one can switch until a competitor has bug-compatibility with the highly complex and under-specified document format. But because companies can't switch, it sucks all the oxygen out of the room for competitors who are deprived of the revenue, patches and donations they would otherwise get with a larger user base. So they don't have the resources to achieve bug-compatibility and the status quo sustains, not because Excel is so great, but because Microsoft ensures that competitors don't get better.

In theory Apple has the resources to do this, but "Microsoft compatibility mode" and "backwards compatible forever" are anathema to their brand, so they don't. Google, by contrast, has actually made an effort and taken a huge bite out of Office market share. You might even say the product is better. But it's still not 100% compatible, and there are companies not willing to put their most sensitive private data on somebody else's cloud, so there are still plenty of companies stuck with Microsoft -- not because it's great, but because there is no great alternative.
So not knowing how to use a function in programming language is equivalent to a car exploding? Man, your logic is broken in ways that actually hurt.
All this is technically correct, but it also means this technology is absolutely not ready to be used for anything remotely involving humans or end user data.
No problem, we'll just rename every city to the latitude and longitude of the city hall, expressed to 3 decimal places and concatenated.
Exactly, pick something that is expensive right now, make it free and people will use it.
Mutually Assured Commitment
Israeli here - I just checked and I can still access the site in both English and Arabic. My guess is you won’t actually see the site being blocked.
No, it's not a function that causes it. It's the dev who is sloppy and causes issues. Would you blame the scalpel or brain surgeon for mishap while cutting important bits in the brain?

What kind of logic is this, to blame the tool because you have no clue how to use it?
I've launched a new website that offers interactive tutorials for learning HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Whether you're a complete beginner or looking to brush up on your skills, this site provides a hands-on approach with a focus on practical application.
Microsoft exec: "Apple is not interested in replacing Google" (2009)
Wow, that is a lengthy tutorial.

I only skimmed over it now, so maybe I missed it: How do all these developed methods compare to existing real autopilot systems? Are there even existing autopilot systems which work similarly? Did the author come up with these methods just by themselves, or were they adapted from existing systems? Would those developed methods make sense in a real autopilot system?

Also, it seems that this involved a lot of trial-and-error, and the solutions come with a number of heuristics and hyper parameters to tune. I wonder if you can do better and avoid that as much as possible.

First of all, you would need to have an actual metric which covers all the things you would care about. Obviously no fatal crash, but then also maybe somewhat smooth flight (you can measure that) and how close you want to get to each waypoint, while maybe taking not too much fuel. And given those, let it find the best possible path. I guess this is optimal control theory then. When you have an actual metric which you can measure, then you can quantitatively compare all the methods, also automatically optimize any parameters.
I only get this in the sidebar, far easier to miss: https://i.imgur.com/5rhqKPI.png
Overall average mortality in this group is rising since 2021.
When your neighbors are trying to ethnically cleanse you, surviving is winning.
Seems like this would mostly raise suspicion for little gain, wasn't there a more robust solution of signed distributed reviews so you could simply pin the dependency at a state where reviewers you've explicitly added as trusted review code (and similarly after you review you can express that for the others to rely on)

Of course, this won't magically increase the time spent on code review, but will at least allow currently internal reviews to be available
No, a function that does a wrong and dangerous thing by default unless you tell it otherwise is equivalent to a car exploding.
As an outside observer, it seems reasonable to assume asveikau missed the figurative language. The original phrase used was "dead in the water," which as noted does not imply death; however the response alleged that death was (rudely?) what the original commenter was talking about.

Seems blown out of proportion, at least partially because of missing figurative language. The above wall of text seems a long-winded, somewhat tongue-in-cheek way to say "yeah I didn't say that."
A lot of things have "said purpose" and the "real purpose" because of which such absolutely kafkaesque things survive in organizations.

The said purpose of-course is to make sure that the candidate is "committed to diversity". We can argue all day on whether a statement is in any way good measure of it. It really isn't. I have helped people write such statements and we have always written it with cynicism and great contempt for the people who might actually read it.

But the "real reason" which such concept found a great foothold in modern American universities is that it kind of acts as top kill to get rid of potential people who might actually ask questions critical of various ideological positions that the university's internal bodies might have. You either want a radical zealot or at least someone who is willing to play along for his own career-maxing goals. What you don't want is someone who can call the emperor naked. Diversity statements are excellent way to achieve this as I have seen people write one line diversity statements such as 'I don't have one as I do not think diversity is important'. Such person IMO is more intellectually honest and would be a good addition to faculty position but will not be hired.

You are right that there is tons of resentment around the DEI BS that people have to go through. Tech companies have esoteric training problems with terms like "allyship" and "bystander effect" and all that which basically smells rotten to lot of engineers but they cynically complete those trainings any ways.
Yeah, I guess the several hundred thousand people involved were just slacking off a lot on government money.

Please don't forget to close such statements with an /s, lest some notorious software "engineers" on HN might be led to actually believe engineering the most powerful vehicle on earth mostly by hand was a negligible task.
So all the alternative Linux open source phones, like Pine, or free (and secure) implementations of Android don’t work in the US?
Check this - if it's something important.. don't forget it and implement something called "function" that would pass the third parameter by default?

Anyone who is not capable of taking care of what you called footgun in a way where they automate - that person is not serious.

If there's a pretty huge problem - manage it. That's your job as programmer. If you're lazy, sloppy and prefer whining online over being proud of your work - there's no programming language that will take care of that for you.
That was not an original "string". The question is, and be honest: why was there a blockade? How long did Palestinians have Gaza and no blockade? What happened then?
YMMV, but I try to drink a bit of water, maybe do some pushups if I'm at home, fix my eyes by looking out the window for 20 seconds, maybe munch on something. Basically, all the sensory and bodily stuff you don't do when you're coding. It's also a good time to top up your coffee, if that's your thing.
I read his posts about the hedonic treadmill and general anti-car-dependence at the time that I was considering a (nicer) replacement for a car that had developed expensive problems.

I ended up selling the car and we've been a one-car household ever since... despite the addition of our kid.
What do you care about the overall average quality? You don't need to buy them.

You only need to worry about perhaps the average of the things you buy.
Is it ungraceful to point out that mindless political zealotry costs you the debate at least and people's lives at worst? I think it's constructive if anything.

Why not NOAA? Because existing signage is already in place for the current spectrum arrangement.

Now we have to replace signage across 50 states? No thanks. I don't listen to AM radio. You don't either.

Why do you care?
When did anyone claim this was a hobbyist project? It looks pretty serious to me.
You have a much more optimistic view of the current state of public discourse than I do.

There are plenty of organizations and people ready to tear down anything seen as against the party line for their own benefit. It's so much easier to criticize than contribute, and it only takes a few criticisms that ignore nuance and present things in a different context for critical mass to gather behind those misinterpretations.

The same things that make certain public forums resistant to this are the same things limit their growth, or that limit the spread of the message (content bubbles), so I'm not sure how to get around that without a major societal and cultural shift to how information is consumed.
>The EU has banned many Russian and Belarussian news sources since the invasion of Ukraine.

I read Clark's Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia (<https://www.amazon.com/dp/B002RI9PMM/>) right after hearing about YouTube shutting down Russian state media channels. I was surprised to learn in the book of the extent of the freedom of the press in late 18th-century Prussia. A British visitor wrote that people were as free to speak as back home, citing a work that was very critical of the king in the context of Poland. During the Napoleonic wars, despite the existential threat to Prussia from France, at least four newspapers that celebrated Revolutionary France as the next step in human freedom were allowed to publish.

It's always preferable to counter propaganda with free speech. Even liars deserve the opportunity to speak. This is especially true when there is no formally declared war between US/Europe outside Ukraine and Russia.
How is that totalitarian?
Bureaucratic - yes, totalitarian- hardly.
Except for purely non lucrative entertainment use cases with a very high novelty factor, I am struggling to see productive use cases for all these AI applications that don't involve some form of deception or at best disingenuous marketing.
It's important for people to realize that the US dollars market are quite open that if the current actors thinks that the dollar is going down, it'll go down very fast. So if you are an average HNer (citizen) don't go freak out and put all of your money on gold or bitcoin. (This is not a long-term assessment though; that being impossible to predict the far future).

Nobody wants to see the US dollar collapse overnight. Neither the US nor China (which holds trillions of US bonds). But everyone wants to move from that standard including the US (which, being the reserve currency, has suffered a horrible NIIP since the end of the gold standard[1]).

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_international_investment_p...
Musk is raising $6B for AI startup. Also, is TikTok dodging Apple's commissions?
> Has anyone ever bribed an engineer to make a bridge or a water supply less robust

Of course, this happens all the time, check the consequences of any earthquake in any corrupt country for the more visible examples
Hi, I just wondering what you think if we change the statement a little bit. Maybe it's wrong if we say there has been no advancement. But can we say it's slower to adopt all these technologies in agriculture?